Hi novel experts

I would need answer to the following question:

What title character of a famous novel does not appear physically
in the book for the first five hundred pages?

thank you in advance
Arsen

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I believe this to be 'Moby Dick' by Herman Melville.

Cheers PJ (on the beat)

OK, what title character NEVER appears in this famous book at all, yet influences all the story? ( hint: it became an Alfred Hitchcok thriller) tjoeb};>

That's gotta be Momma from "Psycho"